Atoms for Peace Award

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The Atoms for Peace Award was an international prize established during the Cold War to honor significant contributions to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the promotion of international cooperation in atomic science.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf international award
peace prize
science and technology award
awardFrequency irregular
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
currency US dollar
surface form: United States dollar
dissolvedOrAbolished 1969
fieldOfWork international relations
nuclear engineering
nuclear physics
firstRecipient Niels Bohr
foundedBy Henry Ford II
surface form: American industrialist Henry Ford II

Ford Motor Company
genre scientific award
hasAwardedFor promotion of international cooperation in nuclear science
significant contributions to peaceful uses of atomic energy
hasRecipient Abdus Salam
Alvin M. Weinberg
Enrico Fermi
Ernest Walton
Eugene Wigner
George de Hevesy
surface form: George C. de Hevesy

Hans Bethe
International Atomic Energy Agency
I. I. Rabi
surface form: Isidor Isaac Rabi

J. Robert Oppenheimer
John Cockcroft
Lise Meitner
Luis Alvarez
surface form: Luis W. Alvarez

Niels Bohr
Otto Hahn
Sigvard Eklund
United Nations
inception 1959
languageOfWorkOrName English
locationOfFoundation United States of America
surface form: United States
mainSubject atomic science
international cooperation
peaceful use of nuclear energy
monetaryValue $75,000
namedAfter Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace
surface form: Atoms for Peace speech
purpose to encourage peaceful applications of nuclear energy
to recognize leadership in international atomic cooperation
relatedTo Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace
surface form: Atoms for Peace program

International Atomic Energy Agency
sponsor Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company
surface form: Ford Motor Company Fund
timePeriod Cold War

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Walter Zinn awardReceived Atoms for Peace Award
Alvin M. Weinberg awardReceived Atoms for Peace Award